CLARKSVILLE - Raymond Munger Memorial Chapel at the University of the Ozarks will be renovated with money from a $2 million gift.
Frances E. Wilson of Tulsa made the gift to the university as a tribute to her late husband, Thomas D. Wilson.
The donation will be divided between immediate renovations to the chapel and a new Thomas D. and Frances E. Wilson Chapel Endowment Fund, which will go toward the chapel’s future maintenance and improvements.
Planned work includes changes to the chapel’s student meeting and fellowship areas; improvements to the building’s electrical, mechanical, plumbing and audio/visual systems; and the restoration of elements in the sanctuary and the building’s exterior, said Steve Edmisten, a special assistant to the university’s president.
The sanctuary seats 600 to 700 congregants and features stained-glass windows, a vaulted ceiling and detailed wood carvings, Edmisten said in a news release. The chapel was built on the Clarksville campus in 1932 and dedicated in 1933, the university said.
Arkansas, Pages 17 on 05/02/2014